Palm Springs Film Fest to spotlight Canadian cinemaDecember 22, 2015 - 15:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Palm Springs Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 1 to 11, will offer a special program focusing on Canadian cinema, The Hollywood Reporter said. In what's become a tradition, the festival will screen 10 Canadian films in all, including the U.S. premiere of Andrew Cividino’s Sleeping Giant, in the New Voices, New Visions program. Cividino's coming-of-age drama debuted in Cannes and was named best Canadian first feature in Toronto. The Canadian spotlight was unveiled after Brie Larson, the star of Lenny Abrahamson's kidnap drama Room, a Canada-Ireland co-production, was tapped by Palm Springs organizers for this year's Breakthrough Performance Award. Also booked into Palm Springs is Stephen Dunn's drama Closet Monster, Don't Blink, a U.S.-Canada collaboration by Robert Frank and Laura Israel, Maxime Giroux's Felix and Meira, Canada's entry into the Oscar's best foreign language film category, and The Girl King, a Finland-Canada co-production by Mika Kaurismaki. And Palm Springs will screen Andre Turpin's Endorphine, Adam Garnet Jones' Fire Song, Philippe Falardeau's My Internship in Canada, Dominic Goyer's On My Mother's Side, and Ryan McKenna's Sabali. "This year’s selection of Canadian films at [Palm Springs] illustrates the vitality of the Canadian film culture and the strength of its emerging talent," Helen Du Toit, Palm Spring’s artistic director, said in a statement. Photo: Toronto International Film Festival Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |